Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always working is extremely important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out after awhile and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re likely on the website because one of your front turn signals is burnt out and you’re questioning how to change the bulb of a front turn signal on your Infiniti Q50, we’ve made this content to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first section, we will look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Infiniti Q50 and in a second section, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to find out if the front turn signal bulb on your Infiniti Q50 is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety components of your Infiniti Q50. In fact, you are nearly always in a hurry and tend to get into your vehicle, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is therefore crucial to take the time to once in a while verify the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Infiniti Q50, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple techniques to control if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it fairly quickly:

  • When you stop, turn on the ignition on your car, then alternately turn on your left and right front turn signals and get out of the car to control that they are working.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible signal on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Infiniti Q50, you will identify that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this suggests that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and check out which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first solution shown previously.

You may have another bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to consult our articles to help you to accomplish this replacing.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Infiniti Q50

Now let’s go to the main section of this content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Infiniti Q50? Take note that this procedure is uncomplicated, you will have to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Infiniti Q50. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content. However, here are the details of the actions to stick to in order to perform this act accurately according to the technique you want to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Infiniti Q50 through the bonnet:

  • Open your bonnet and clear access to your headlight pods.
  • Use a torx tip to open the headlight unit on your car
  • Unscrew the front turn signal bulb from your car by turning it a quarter turn counterclockwise
  • Replace the front flasher bulb of your Infiniti Q50 by the new one (be sure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb operates.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Infiniti Q50 through the wheel arch:

    This methodology is extremely valuable when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and remove the front wheel on the side you want to operate on.
    • Take out your wheel arch with a torx bit.
    • Go to your headlamp block and replace the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Infiniti Q50 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, according to the options the only simple access you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb of your car will be to pass under your front bumper, there are only a few steps that change from the full technique, we will describe them now:

    • Put your Infiniti Q50 on a jack or a candle.
    • Remove the screws of the motor shoe of your car(plastic part under your motor) and your shock absorber. Be cautious with the plastic staples which can be breakable.
    • Remove your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Infiniti Q50 following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more tutorials on the Infiniti Q50, go to our Infiniti Q50 category.